Quotes About Power

The powers that be are trying to meld, shape, and corral the culture of hip-hop into another speaking voice for the government.

International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.

The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government.

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

Democracy is the most vile form of government.

Government is like a vast ocean and politics is the six-inch layer on top.

It is an expensive government program with the power to kill people.

This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all.

all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.

The US government is usually on the wrong side against the poor and downtrodden, because the wrong side is the right side, given the class interests upon which the [US] policy is fixed.

There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government.

. . . behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.

The one thing government has which we (you or I or any corporation) DON'T have, is the ability to use deadly force to accomplish its goals.

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny

Government cannot kill the liberty to think. The idea, the thought, lives forever.

We need a government that does not give in to a globalist agenda, an agenda I am now convinced seeks to bring American as a sovereign nation and the middle class to their knees.

...governments, including free and democratic governments, are not really friendly to freedom and democracy. They abhor any rule of law that limits their powers and penchant for social engineering.

The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government.

The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'

Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.

Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first subsidize.